Declare
Pick from twelve real intents. Hold several at once, because real people do.
What you are trying to do
Say what you areactually trying to do
Twelve intents. Hold several. Let them expire.
12intents
11roles
0stale asks kept alive
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The problem
A profile says what you are. Not what you need
Every network stores your title and your history. None of them store the thing that would actually let someone help you: what you are trying to make happen this month.
So the most useful fact about you is the one nobody can see, and the introductions you get are based on what you were doing two years ago.
02
What it is
Live intent
An intent is a live statement of what you are trying to do, with the constraints that make it real.
Raise, invest, hire, find a role, land a customer, form a partnership, find a cofounder. Each one carries its stage, sector, geography, ticket size and exclusions.
And an expiry. A stale intent disappears instead of quietly staying searchable, so nobody is matched against something you stopped wanting six months ago — and nobody wastes an introduction on it.
How it moves
Declare. Constrain. Let it expire.
Constrain
Stage, sector, geography, ticket, exclusions. The things that decide eligibility.
Let it expire
Set how long it is true for. Silence is never read as an ongoing ask.
The surfaces
The same thing, everywhere you work.
Also in the app
What the declared intent produces
In detail
What that actually means.
The four decisions behind how this behaves.
Twelve, not infinite
A fixed vocabulary is what lets two sides match at all. Free text matches nothing.
Several at once
Raising and hiring in the same week is normal. One account, several live intents.
Constraints are first-class
They decide eligibility before anything is ranked, so ineligible matches never appear.
It expires on purpose
The alternative is a graph slowly filling with things nobody wants any more.
What it will not do
Nobody sees an intent you did not publish
Declaring an intent is a deliberate act, and switching it off removes it from matching entirely — not from the display while the engine keeps using it.
Who it is for
Anyone whose situation changed since their bio did
Which is everyone. The title on your profile is a year behind what you need this month.
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